Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

I am who I am and that's who I am

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

Everything I ever learned I was told by someone else.

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?

The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.

You must give before you can get.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

I'm not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had been that I am secretly a dentist or that I love soup.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.